I'm trying to plan for one of my projects, and I'm considering using
pyramid as a base. But while I was fiddling with it, I realized it wasn't
really cross-platform.
Is there any way to use pyramid/pylons without installing it? I would like
to unpackage it and use it as an import, allowing me to move my project as
a folder to many different computers with different OSes and performing
normally.

Sorry, I didn't mean it wasn't downright incompatible with cross platform.
My wording was off.
I meant that, If I wanted to do it following the tutorial on the website, I
would have to create a script that installs the virtual environment and
pyramid for that OS, then run it. I would have to include a binary for each
OS in the package to send to each one.

My project in a nutshell was going to just be packaged up, and the user
would just download it and the main.py through python shell and enable it,
allowing them to see the page.

Thank you for the response in terms of having a requirements.txt, it
answered my question since that was something I was kind of hoping to try
and avoid.

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Le 04/03/2013 20:46, Han Chuang a crit :

No, it's not frozen or anything, and I intend to keep the entire tar fully
updated.

import os
import logging
import sqlite3
import sys
sys.path.append("/pyramid-1.4/pyramid/")
import pyramid

I placed the unzipped pyramid egg inside tasks.py in hopes it can pick it
up, but it claims it can't find pyramid even though it's on the python path.

2.   ruby has something called 'bundler' , which basically automates
virtualenv + pip + routes, or lets you create a "vendor" directory
where you can distribute 3rd party libraries with your code.  python
doesn't really have that.  this is something you'll deal with on any
Python framework.

There are 2 general ways I've seen people handle this

A. Create a 'lib' or 'extlib' ( external library ) directory .  stick
all of your 3rd party libraries in there.  note that this will only
work for pure-python libraries -- ones that don't have c extensions.

B. Use a packaging tool.  These posts talk about different strategies
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106725/how-to-bundle-a-python-appl...
    http://hackerboss.com/how-to-distribute-commercial-python-applications/

StackOverflow has a lot of questions on this topic.  I strongly
suggest you explore there and ask some questions there as well --
although this involves pyramid, your concerns are really on Python
packaging in general.

In general though -- what you're trying to do is what 99.9999999% of
people who use Python actively avoid and recommend against.